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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Identify full path in argument Post 302932911 by Ditto on Monday 26th of January 2015 10:09:14 AM
Old 01-26-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by wbport
I have a small script to send copies of files to another computer used for tests but in the same location:
Code:

 pwd=`pwd`
 for i in "$@"
 do
 echo "rcp -p $i comp-2:$pwd/$i"
 rcp -p $i comp-2:$pwd/$i
 echo "Finished with $i"
 done
 

Is there a way I can check the parameter to see if it is a full path name so it could run an rcp without any "pwd" processing necessary?

TIA
Define "full path" .
is it:

1) starting with a slash "/" ?
then just check first character for a "/"

Code:
IAMIN=`pwd`

if [[ `echo $IAMIN | cut -c1` == "/" ]]
then
   echo true
else
   echo false
fi

IAMIN=some_file.txt

if [[ `echo $IAMIN | cut -c1` == "/" ]]
then
   echo true
else
   echo false
fi

2) just a file name, no path:

Code:
IAMIN=`pwd`

if [[ `echo $(basename $IAMIN)` == $IAMIN ]]
then
   echo true
else
   echo false
fi

IAMIN=some_file.txt

if [[ `echo $(basename $IAMIN)` == $IAMIN ]]
then
   echo true
else
   echo false
fi

(and there's probably better ways of doing that Smilie )
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